The universe is far bigger and more interconnected than we can truly comprehend. Its scale is mind-bending. Driving around ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, has fascinated observers for centuries. Once believed to be part of the Milky Way, everything changed in 1923 when Edwin Hubble identified ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Muhammad Umar, who uses his mother’s Celestron telescope to view the stars, said Jupiter, the largest and oldest planet in ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Whether you're lying on a salt flat in Kutch or wrapped up on a Himalayan rooftop, these stargazing spots in India are proof ...

Colorado residents and visitors who tilt their heads skyward after dark this July will witness awe-inspiring astrological ...

This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...